Quickstart (Entity Framework)

This quickstart illustrates a series of tasks that support the topics in Getting Started (Entity Framework). These tasks are designed to help you become familiar with the ADO.NET Entity Framework.

What You Will Learn

The first task in this quickstart shows you how to create the School database, and then use Visual Studio tools to generate mapping files for an Entity Data Model (EDM), based on a 1:1 mapping to tables in the database. In subsequent tasks, you will create a Windows Forms application in Visual Studio, create queries that access data in the School model, bind the query results to display controls to show the results of the queries, and then make updates to objects and persist the changes to the database.

You can download the completed Course Manager as both a Visual Basic project and a C# project from the MSDN Code Gallery Web site.

Requirements

This quickstart is intended for users who are familiar with Visual Studio development and the .NET Framework, but who are new to the Entity Framework. To complete the quickstart, you must have the following software installed:

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.

The ADO.NET Entity Framework runtime and tools. You can download the ADO.NET Entity Framework runtime and tools from the Microsoft Download Center.

Microsoft SQL Server 2005 or later with Database Services, or the Express edition of SQL Server 2005 or later.